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But characters can and do arise completely out of my imagination, like Ace and Frosty in When Pigs Fly. Lots of the characters have a sliver of my personality: how I am, how I’d like to be, or what I fear I could become. Largely, my characters are built from a combination of traits: this guy’s beer gut, that gal’s tattoo. Where do a novel’s characters come from? In the case of my novels, no one needs to worry that I’ve based a character on him.

Thanks for hosting me, Marian! I appreciate your generosity in lending me your corner of cyberspace. I asked Bob to share something about his character creation. Little Mountain is the name of his book, and it really deserves better than for me to make cheap jokes.īob is the author of When Pigs Fly, (an iUniverse Star book), Getting Lucky, and Little Mountain, associate editor and webmaster of The Internet Review of Books, active in the El Paso Writers’ League, Mesilla Valley Writers, and the Internet Writing Workshop. My pal Bob Sanchez is on a blog book tour and he was fool–I mean nice enough to visit me along the way. They have two children.No, this is not an off-color political joke. He graduated with honors from the University of Missouri and is married to his high school sweetheart. Sanchez was born near Boston, but was raised in Colorado. In addition to his magazine experience, Sanchez is a former staff writer for the Associated Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Denver Post, and the Rocky Mountain News.

In 2014, he was named CRMA’s writer of the year. Additionally, his work has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”, as well in ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, and Men’s Health. Sanchez’s work has been anthologized twice in the “Best American Sports Writing” series (with two other stories listed as “notable”), in “Next Wave” (a collection of the best American writers younger than 40), and in “Words Matter” (which features 20 influential University of Missouri School of Journalism graduates). Features he’s written have been recognized by the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, the City and Regional Magazine Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. Robert Sanchez has written on everything from inner-city gangs to brain trauma to natural disasters.